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About the Africa Integrity Indicators

The Africa Integrity Indicators (AII) is a research project initiated by Global Integrity in 2012, in collaboration with the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. AII focuses on African governance in practice, examining how policies are implemented to support governments, citizens, and civil society and assessing key social, economic, political, and anti-corruption mechanisms at the national level across all 55 African Union member countries. Starting with the 11th round (2023), data for AII is collected and published by the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP). Global Integrity and AFIDEP collaborated on the data collection for the 10th round of AII (2022).

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55African Union member states

58In-practice indicators

12Years of data

120+Contributors every year

Our approach

Governance as it is practised, not just as it is written

Every year, AII produces data through the help of over 120 contributors to generate original governance data: in-country researchers, country specialists, thematic experts, editors. Our dataset evaluates both the in-law and in-practice aspects of corruption and governance. Measuring both the existing legal framework and the “in-practice” implementation is key in our effort to produce actionable governance data that help governments, citizens and civil society understand the implementation gap between law and practice, evaluate the status quo and identify intervention points for subsequent reform efforts.

In lawWhat the constitution, statutes and regulations require.

In practiceWhat actually happens — researched in-country and peer-reviewed.

Intervention pointsWhere governments, citizens and civil society can push for reform.

What we measure

Our dataset has 58 in-practice indicators, divided into two main categories:

Transparency and Accountability

The Transparency and Accountability category consists of 32 indicators examining issues divided in the thematic areas of rule of law, accountability, elections, public management integrity, civil service integrity, and access to information. The indicators look into the transparency of the public procurement process, media freedom, asset disclosure requirements, independence of the judiciary, and conflict of interest laws, among many others.

Rule of LawAccountabilityElectionsPublic ManagementPublic Service IntegrityAccess to Information & Openness

Social Development

The Social Development category consists of 26 indicators about gender, rights, welfare, business environment, health, and education. These indicators have been designed to complement the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) in areas not covered by the secondary data sources it employs. As such, it evaluates factual and precise aspects of social development, but does not deliver an aggregate score reflecting a general assessment about an issue.

Human RightsGender & InclusionStatisticsWelfareHealthCivil Registration

Our story

More than a decade of governance data

2012Global Integrity starts the Africa Integrity Indicators with the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.
2022Round 10: Global Integrity and AFIDEP collect the data together.
2023Round 11: AFIDEP leads the research and publishes the data.
TodayOriginal, peer-reviewed data on all 55 African Union member states, every year.

Partners

Who is behind AII

AFIDEPAfrican Institute for Development Policy — leads the research and publishes the data since 2023.

Global IntegrityCreated the Africa Integrity Indicators in 2012 and ran rounds 1 to 10.

Mo Ibrahim FoundationFounding partner; AII complements its Ibrahim Index of African Governance.

In prior rounds, Global Integrity researched additional indicators that can still be accessed on the data page. Our research follows a strict methodology.

More information on our methodology and our contributors can be found by following the links below: